Bob Badour <bbadour_at_pei.sympatico.ca> wrote:
> How about a simulation instead? For things like the weather, climate
> change, epidemiology, fluid flows around objects like propellers, or the
> norwegian simulations back in the 1960's that OO was invented for.
This is a little OT, but as it turns, there's a pretty big difference
between discrete simulations and continuous simulations. OO isn't
really any stronger at continuous simulations than anything else I can
think of. I'd think one would use continuous methods for simulating
fluid flows, since it's basically a matter of solving the Navier-Stokes
equations. Simula was designed for discrete event simulations, which
works for stuff like social models, population biology, etc.
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Chris Smith - Lead Software Developer / Technical Trainer
MindIQ Corporation
Received on Thu Jul 06 2006 - 13:13:08 CDT
